Bug#748740: Does not work anymore with https servers that use selfsigned certificates

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

-=| Klaus Ethgen, 20.05.2014 11:40:19 +0100 |=-
> Package: libwww-perl
> Version: 6.06-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The newest version of libwww-perl does not connect to https servers with
> selfsigned certificates anymore; even not with environment
> PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME set to 0.

I can confirm this:

 $ env -i PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 PERL_LWP_SSL_CA_PATH=/ \
 GET https://www.debian.org/
 Can't connect to www.debian.org:443

 Network is unreachable at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 
 41.


 $ env -i GET https://www.debian.org/ | wc -l
 254
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